'FASH' -- Fashion Merchandising and Design Courses
 
   
 

 
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FASH 9 - History of Costume
                and Fashion   (3 units)
This course is a survey of Western costume and fashion from antiquity to contemporary times.  Emphasis is placed on style development as it relates to social, economic and political forces, and the relationship of historic styles to current fashion.
 
(54 hours lecture;      Degree applicable, CSU)

Course Measurable Objectives:

  1. Develop an understanding and analyze the relationships of historic costume to contemporary dress.
  2. Develop a vocabulary of costume and fashion terminology.
  3. Recognize and identify period costume and name design detail using correct terminology.
  4. Research the historical development of clothing.
  5. Analyze the factors that have historically created fashion movement.
  6. Compare and contrast the relationships of social, political and cultural developments with the importance of costume and fashion of each period.
  7. Develop an understanding of history through the evolvement of dress.
  8. Critically analyze fashion movement, its causes and its relationship to today.

Course Level Student Learning Outcomes:


Students completing FASH 9 - History of Costume and Fashion will be able to:
  1. differentiate and compare contrast vintage costume from between dress of various decades of the 20th to 21st century.
  2. differentiate between dress of early civilizations including Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
  3. identify and differentiate between modes of dress from 1600-1900.
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